Though best known for creating some of the greatest dramas of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller was also a master of the short story. Initially published in prestigious venues like the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and Esquire, his fiction constitutes a fascinating and indispensable portion of his lifes work. Presence: Collected Stories revives and reintroduces these masterly works, making available in one volume stories previously scattered across various collections. Here, as in his best plays, Miller pulls apart the threads of American life with tender humanism and unmatched psychological realism. These stories build on the landscape of Millers drama, of Broadway dives and Brooklyn shipyards where businessmen, writers, bums, and blue-collar workers struggle for self-worth. This vital collection celebrates not just the Miller we know through his most often-performed plays, but the whole of his astounding depth as an artist.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143108474
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 22/11/2016
Año de edición: 2016
Plaza de edición: Eeuu
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Escrito por Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller (Nova York, 1915 – 2005) és un dels autors més influents del teatre estatunidenc del segle xx. Fill d’immigrants jueus polonesos, va créixer en un entorn marcat per les dificultats econòmiques de la Gran Depressió. Entre les seves obres destaquen "Tots eren fills meus" (1947), "La mort d’un viatjant" (1949, guardonada amb un Premi Pulitzer), "Les bruixes de Salem" (1953) i "Panorama des del pont" (1955, també guardonada amb un Premi Pulitzer), que li van permetre expressar a través dels seus personatges l’esperit crític i compromès que sempre el va caracteritzar. Va ser un ferm defensor dels drets civils i va tenir una posició molt crítica amb el maccarthisme, la qual cosa el va portar a ser citat davant del Comitè d’Activitats Antiamericanes. També va escriure novel·les, assaigs i guions de cinema, com és el cas de "The Misfits" (1961).